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Recent Examples of welfare state
The welfare state Trump seeks to reform is a misshapen layer cake of liberal ambitions.
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Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 Feb. 2025
Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
That leaves less to invest in training and technology to enhance productivity and deliver the economic growth — and tax revenues — required to maintain welfare states.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
In fact, many right-wing parties now embrace the welfare state.
—Nate Cohn, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 Feb. 2025
Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
That leaves less to invest in training and technology to enhance productivity and deliver the economic growth — and tax revenues — required to maintain welfare states.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
In fact, many right-wing parties now embrace the welfare state.
—Nate Cohn, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare state
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Four months ago, the administration of Mayor Eric Adams seemed to be in an irreversible state of crisis.—
Emma G. Fitzsimmons,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Potter pleaded guilty Friday in San Diego Superior Court and is expected to be sentenced in May to 15 years to life in state prison.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.—
Lloyd Axworthy,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2024
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Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.—
Michael M. Phillips,
WSJ,
1 Feb. 2022
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In the early stages of the Cold War, Hungary, a client state controlled by the USSR, rebelled, fueled by student demonstrations arguing for secession and freedom of speech.—
Daniel Seifert,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Feb. 2025
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But Assad’s fall (and Russia’s indifference to the collapse of his regime) suggests that concern for Syria or any other client state has been subjugated by Putin to his overriding focus on dealing Ukraine a decisive defeat.—
Alexander Baunov,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Dec. 2024
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That leaky bucket is the reality of your nation's finances.—
Axios,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
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By stripping individuals of their right to legal recourse based on immigration status, this legislation reopens wounds from our nation's past, where the humanity of certain groups was denied under the law.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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Calleja directed cultural and national events including the commonwealth heads of government meeting opening ceremony in 2015 and Malta’s presidency of the council of the EU cultural program in 2017.—
Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Feb. 2025
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The Kentucky Open Records Act allows residents of the commonwealth to request access to a wide range of government documents, though some are exempt from inspection.—
Eleanor McCrary,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Feb. 2025
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The settlement would also entail changes to roster limits for most sports, including men’s soccer, which would see its limit more than triple to 28 players.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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However, this settlement is far from typical in numerous ways and Judge Wilken initially declined to give the settlement preliminary approval back in September.—
Joe Sabin,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Such a deal would reduce US dependency on China, and provide significant incentive for the United States to boost Ukrainian security, a US official familiar with negotiations told CNN.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Each step has strong dependencies on the preceding steps.—
Mark Settle,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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President Trump’s decision to scale back U.S. government mandates, which would have forced manufacturers to make and sell more EVs, has been scaled back.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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But sweeping mandates to eliminate all DEI programs would undercut efforts to increase fairness and, perhaps more importantly, deny organizations the opportunity to hire the best and the brightest.—
Gregory D. Squires,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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